Chapter 846: Collapse and Escape
More than two hundred grenades, emitting white smoke, suddenly flew out of the grass dozens of paces away.
Then, a very beautiful parabola was drawn in the air, and it landed very precisely in the middle of the dense array of muskets of the Tartars.
Although the power of a single grenade is not as powerful as that of a mortar flowering shell, the power of dozens or hundreds of grenades exploding together is definitely far greater than that of dozens of flowering shells falling from the sky.
Therefore, after the grenade exploded, as long as the Tartar musketeers were enveloped by the smoke generated by the grenade explosion, without exception, all the grenade fragments were cut to the ground.
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of Tartar musketeers fell in this round of grenade explosions.
Of course, for the Tartars, this blow was only the beginning.
The moment the first grenade exploded, the second grenade flew over the Tartar musketeers......
Dense grenades, like rain, constantly fell among the Tartar musketeers, killing and wounding them, destroying them.
The Tartar musketeers, under grenade attacks, suffered more and more losses, and were close to collapse. The Tartar sword and shield guard, which had already lost more than half, were not much better.
More than 500 Haw Par musketeers, with their fastest firing speed, fired lead bullets at the Tartar shields.
The Tartar sword and shield bearers, who were not equipped with any long-range attack weapons, could not even defend in the face of these lead bullets, not to mention counterattacking, and could only face the lead bullets fired by the Haw Par Army, and were shot one after another.
However, what is surprising is that on the battlefield. In the face of the Haw Par Army's clever counterattack. The first to collapse was not the Tartar Sword and Shield Bearer, who had already lost more than half of it. Rather, the Tartar musketeers, who were protected behind them by the sword and shield men.
As a long-range strike and suppression force, the worst of the battles these musketeers faced was to engage enemy musketeers, and the musketeers in the front row fell under the guns of the opponent one by one.
In front of him, a grenade exploded, and several musketeers around him were blown to the ground without even having a chance to react. What's more, the Tartar musketeers who were hit directly by grenades. With the sound of the grenade exploding, it was directly blown to the bones, and not even a complete corpse could be left.
As a musketeer, when have you ever encountered such a tragic battle scene......
Therefore, when the thick smoke of the grenade explosion enveloped them for the first time, stimulated by the pungent smell of gunsmoke, an invisible fear quickly enveloped the entire Tartar musket array.
No one knew that on the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, the next powerful grenade would fall next to him and explode.
It's just a blink of an eye. The faces of these musketeers were covered with a thick expression of despair.
To know. These musketeers were all 20,000 Han Eight Banners trained by Ao Bai later. The so-called Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, as the name suggests, except for a small number of generals, the other ordinary soldiers were Han slaves who were plundered back from the Central Plains by the Tartars.
The elite iron cavalry, which is composed entirely of Tartars, is likely to collapse directly on the battlefield in the face of unprecedented tragic losses on the battlefield, not to mention that these are not Han slaves with the same heart as the Tartars.
Therefore, in the face of death that may befall him at any time, the musketeer, who was already full of despair about his future, could no longer bear this psychological pressure and suffering, and began to show signs of collapse.
When a musketeer, ignoring the roar of the officers around him, shouted and dropped the musket, and began to flee for his life down the mountain. The other musketeers, who were already on the verge of collapse, did not hesitate at all and joined the collapse directly.
As more and more Tartar musketeers began to flee for their lives with fearful faces.
The Tartar generals scattered among the musketeers also knew that the tide was turning, and no matter how much they persisted, they could not save this collapsed situation. So, they no longer insisted, and immediately after that, they began to flee for their lives to the foot of the mountain.
A good sentence can touch the whole body.
As the atmosphere of the collapse of the battlefield of the Musketeers quickly spreads across the battlefield. Still holding a breath in his heart, the Tartar sword and shield hand, who insisted on attacking forward, was immediately deflated.
Follow the musketeers and flee for your life to the foot of the mountain.
The Haw Par Army, which held the top of the mountain, all the musketeers combined, was less than 800 people.
However, such a good opportunity to beat the water dogs is in front of them, and if they give up like this, they will definitely regret it for half their lives.
Therefore, the remaining 700 or so musketeers on the hill, like 700 hungry wolves that smelled blood, chased after the fleeing Tartars with muskets and howls.
Tartars that are a little farther away are eliminated directly with buckshot...... If you get closer, you will blow it up with a grenade, and if you get closer, you will stab you to death with a bayonet......
More than 700 musketeers chased them to the foot of the hill until the Tartars retreated and left their bodies behind. Then with a face full of unwillingness, he returned to the mountain.
However, in any case, for this attack, the Tartars ended in a miserable white.
The more than 100 red-coated cannons that Ao Bai had given high hopes for were gone, and the 8,000 Tartar sword and shield men and musketeers who directly attacked only returned less than half in the end.
Faced with this tragic ending that he had never imagined, Ao Bai's first thought was incredible.
Just before he could react from the shock, the adjutant general, who had lost hope in this attack, had to open his mouth to remind: "General, the enemy's fire is too fierce...... And we, who have neither time nor artillery cover, will not be able to take the hill in front of us......"
"General, retreat, no, the main force of the Tiger and Leopard Army is coming...... When the time comes, we won't be able to leave even if we want to......"
At this time, no matter how unwilling Ao Bai was, in the face of a strong enemy, he had to lower his head that he had always held high.
Therefore, after being reminded by the deputy general, the solemn and heavy expression on Ao Bai's face immediately returned to calm. Facing the adjutant general, he ordered in as calm a tone as possible: "Retreat, retreat immediately...... We must dare to retreat into the mountains before the arrival of reinforcements from the Haw Par Army, so that the Haw Par Army will not be able to find out. Otherwise, the entire Houjin will be finished......"
At this moment, the more than 10,000 elite of the Tiger and Leopard Army personally commanded by Wang Feng have once again broken through the Tartar defense line. There are only two miles left from the battlefield.
Not only that, with the help of clairvoyance, Wang Feng witnessed how his subordinates repelled the attack of the Tiger and Leopard Army with more than 1,000 troops.
Of course, when paying attention to the battlefield, Tartar's every move did not escape Wang Feng's eyes.
(To be continued......)